New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-05
TO PUSH TIE BIO OA1HEDRAL
A SUMNER REST IN THE CANvAssING.
THE CHOICE or SITE LIES BETWEEN TWO PLOTS
THE AMOUNT RAIsED ALREADY.

THE CHOICE or SITE LIES BETWEEN r"o rAoio
THE AMOUNT RAISED ALREADY
Tho big Protestant Iiscor al Cathedral project came
near whiting last July like verythng else In town.
under tho heat and humidity The sub-executive
committee of trustees held . meeting at the Grand
Central Station sury afternoon In the Gu IAN
OF tho month. 1t was unanimously agreed that Inc
Cathedral enterprise should be pushed on, notwnh-
standing tho weather. Then the committee adjourned
and committeeman hurried homo and got ito theif
bath-tubs. There has been meeting since.
1t would DO mistako however, TO suppose that the
interest i'm the Cathedral scheme has died out In the
meantime, or that 10 is likely to die out The uuste
themselves hal ceiy expected to mako much Pro-
gress with the undertaking before January, 1885, They
I'D not intend originally to maze their Hans public
until this fall. An unfo tunateIy premature ana I'M
authorized statement Of the Jet drew out Bishop
Poters appeal for subscriptions and his letter 10 the
clegy Of diocese eral months before tho scheme
was fully ripe for broaching. The consequence was
faro Of interest Just at the end Of the active
season among the churches and canvass Tor SUD-
scn, ttons which was cut short by the exodus from
town Of all the fashionable and influential hackers Oh
the proposed Cathedral About half million ooi ars
thedra board, Lichard Auchmuty and the chief can.
vas 50 tho l.eV Ur Novin, both quitting Town ior uo
summer tho work Of Rsy f" p N wsi Is as
has 81 GOO deal OF his time urEng the SslheE -
tonr will not come &c the sur acc yet
There art Of the worh, the Iurcnaso Oh !, .
town during the summer. Some efforts, In TACT, were
made to PICK out and buy ocI OF Two Of pa
AMI One-hund efand-sixteenth-st. Bishop Potter.
George McCuoch Miller, g. ID: Baboocx and Corhsi ,
yandcrhI werr tho committee 70 looa up si.e.
and iowa the end Of Juno definitely understood
that tie Mornnpside Par lot Won cnoscn ., ,sd
ST for nea ,9s But tho could
not agree on rrcc st and afterwara It was m;
the estatrs Interested After several fress sessions
tho members Of tn Committee on Sites gavo IL up
tito Hrp
AZ tho matter stands now tn" Cathedral Tru fers ae
VII I'M i've A. out ralf million for tho srouno near
somewhat higher n~uro but cannot AFRO AMONG them
selves vs'hnton Tho ate sommteo s W. T wt,I
10 made then to hny tho Morningsde Park plot OF Some
secou1oSocs sitr has neen souno Nineteth-
ST. on tho east sid, OF Csn.-aI Park. To GROUND -
not birh tho wost sId' but IA nc er me w,
~ tho city No definite rro-osas haze henn ma"o Iof
this riot hut the corrrt~e will bave ~ 70 tall aee
on y the Morninrside Psr ,eoTe prr.s tne se 80
too har' Two three Other sfte' bare nee" n'e',-
t'o"ed INT the choice now lies practically he'weeo
s,o 900 ZOO ot TITS abort s+ooooo has a'rrrdv
ncsn n ~,p,s awe have GIVEN sIo0coo Henry
Nor~ua-d haa suhscrihe' 1'ralfv. tor ana hls W,,'
Two I've crcIs NJ rich and -e"eror p-otestan' "'sco-
raiIars this ctv Il counted ON 'or NJ eft or
,orr ,-,'I,ous rror~ ard suhsc tfo-a looted 20
h-o-dIv p-otes'a-t an' broadly Na.o",' a. ne 70
"n,r,,,or: is ,s.c, n h,,Ird " W. hrcH--utv the
,reasuro- Fund IL SIN ~ er"-. Nass
anI 20 Je.ayled -+,trrnert sarr'' lions an ~
can ortal-nd Narf nrf -ufs t'r f''no
IN nrecr M fa~t fNaf fhr rni WOW
% canvasSng fo- viii not he"tn ~ ne OF FIJI
wce'a.
cor. e. iorD e'ea'tn~ ano'r
,to olect NJ -nuf" tr-n ONT
., 10 , -,ro cur. no thst WITH which the Increment
,c- n cathcf--t he~an u-de- plsNO" Ho-aH0 Por"r.
ou..n In e,ruosf ,rous ttts ne continual ~ s'fe
-tu v. tou~bt Ard rn-e WIN y" heTrn on re
10 tho choir A. -" arc" r""f's rlana
90 ,,r epou-s al. arrod 20 aterd. We cow not
A. 90. IN arco-, ,r~h no s"rp"er ~h"" eer
bosv rte w no srA~rpa orf ~ 'n"n
p, ,h,s rip,.- ,se nnnri vvf wor' w|h r-ish.
90 b,-e nm ,rr,t that suhacf~tians wiz Ho'~ IN ~
g, =. 20 -.,,, ,he-, AZ san"uro think
IN -,vin~ ~. ','~"drai win bo fairly started In
year or two NJ tho latest"